Now Durbin and Pelosi disagree on healthcare vote timing

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says Congress should work through the August recess to pass healthcare legislation, while Senate Majority Whip and Friend of Barry Dick Durbin says there ain’t gonna be a vote before then. Senate aides indicate they do hope to have the Senate Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee bills reconciled and on the floor as one bill before the recess. Small beer, but something.

That said, though, the way Mod Max Baucus has been continuing to dither in Senate Finance, I wouldn’t even count on that.